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Hello everyone and welcome to the RouseBLOG. Many of you have contacted us requesting for a more personal view on the life of a wildlife photographer, so here is the result. I will use the BLOG as a kind of RouseCam, showing new images as they get taken and hopefully inspiring you to get out and do the same. You can help to support the blog pages by puchasing books, prints and clothing from our online store and by coming along to one of the workshops that we hold several times during the year. In return I will try to make it this BLOG fun, informative and educational, and will limit my West Ham comments to a minimum, especially for those Aston Villa fans who have trouble reading big words!

RSS Feed - We now have an RSS feed for the BLOG so if you want to use it then here is the XML link - http://www.andyrouse.co.uk/blog_rss.xml 

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Friday, July 30, 2010

Store Sale - One Day Only

On Saturday July 31st the online store will be having a major sale as follows:

1) Tiger Standard Books will be reduced from £25 to £15

2) Tiger prints will be reduced by 25%

3) All other store prints will be reduced by 20%

The sale will run from midnight 30th to midnight 31st. It is my hope that for the tiger books we can get some decent sales to increase this months donations. Book sales are traditionally slow during the summer months and so I want to get a decent amount to give. Don''t forget that some of the tiger prints offer donations too. For everyone else the prints in the store will be reduced by 20%, a fantastic saving on some of my beautiful work.

I am sorry but in fairness to those clients that have purchased it the Tiger Collectors Edition will not be reduced in price as it is now approaching 75% sold.

Click here for the online store and take advantage of the sale, but remember it doesn''t start until midnight tonight!!

 

posted by andy rouse


Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Gorilla 2011 announced

Well my gorilla obsession reaches new heights with my 4th successive year of leading tours to see the mountain gorillas in Rwanda. I just love being face to face with them and also the experience of being in Rwanda, which is a vibrant and friendly country. Last years trip was just so incredible, to see an image gallery just click here.

The gorilla tours for next year have been changed slightly from previous tours as I have decided to run 4 days of trekking instead of 5 or 3. The second change is that we are now offering two tours that provide a different standard of hotel accomodation. The Gorilla Explorer Tour will stay in the same 3 stay town hotel that we used last year whilst the Gorilla Luxury Tour will use the up market Sabinyo Silverback Lodge, which is in the foothills of the Virunga Volcanoes themselves. Both of these changes are as the result of clients requests from last year.

So why should you come with me on these tours? Well for a start there are the gorillas, they are incredible to spend time with and will give memories that you will never forget. Then there is your guide, me, well I have now done 34 treks (more than almost anyone else in the biz) and know how to work the system to get the best encounters. No details obviously here that will help the copycats, but everyone always agrees that my relationship with rwanda makes the experience that much better.

I have written an extensive brochure telling you all that you need to know about the trip so if you want to find out how wonderful this experience will be then simply download it below.

I look forward to taking you to see the amazing Mountain Gorillas of Rwanda.

 

Download: gorilla_brochure_2011

posted by andy rouse


Thursday, July 15, 2010

A long time!

ok ok I know it has been months since I have updated this BLOG. The truth is that now I put everything I want to communicate via my Facebook Fan page Andyrousephoto. So for the time being, until a new BLOG is started, this will be the main place where you can find out information about what I am doing.

Here is a summary of my latest news:

1) Svalbard 2011 tours have been announced to the land of the polar bear. Please email me for details of these amazing tours.

2) New corporate website - I have a new corporate website aimed at giving an overview of brand Andy Rouse activities, click here to check it out.

And here a few of my latest pictures!





Yep I have been Little Owl mad!!!!

 

posted by andy rouse


Wednesday, April 28, 2010

First Dippers!

Well this has been a year of firsts for me and today it is the turn of Dippers. I never thought that I would enjoy photographing them so much, the challenge for me is to take something different from the norm. So here are my attempts, not bad for a first go!



posted by andy rouse


Thursday, April 22, 2010

Spring blossom

Well Spring has really sprung since I came home from Rwanda and it has just been the most amazing weather. Unfortunately it coincided with the start of some major work on our house so I have not been as productive as I would have normally. I am working on several difficult projects at the moment and of course it takes time to find your feet in a new area. One success last week were some bullfinches and other birds in spring blossom, here are a couple of favourites:





I really love working with such common species as bullfinch and blue tit but of course I have the osprey project ongoing too. After another 18 hour session in the hide yesterday I managed these images. Please do not expect the kind of images that you see from Scotland or abroad, we are at a very early stage with the welsh ospreys and feeling our way forward with what we can achieve. But I will keep trying and will keep u updated!





posted by andy rouse



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